The PMI/New Jersey Networking local interest
group was established to facilitate business and career
networking among PMI/NJ members. The Networking
Group's goals are to provide additional networking
opportunities to PMI/NJ chapter members in the form of
networking events, educational forums, and professional
development opportunities. Business networking
resources have been added to the PMI/NJ members via the
Chapter Web site. Each month a structured networking event
is produced with elements of speakers, panel discussions,
job announcements, networking sessions and interactive
workshops.

College of Performance Management
David Radkovich, PMP, EVP
email:

The College of Performance Management is a
knowledge-based component of the Project Management
Institute, the premier professional organization for project
management professionals. CPM was originally established as
the Performance Management Association, but became the first
college of PMI in 1999.

We are an international, non-profit professional
organization dedicated to the disciplines of project
management and performance measurement to include Earned
Value Management Systems (EVMS) and other
initiatives.

We assist the earned value professional and project manager
in professional growth and promote the application of earned
value management. We are a growing body of professionals
dedicated to managing projects on time and on budget.

Consulting
Bill Craddock, PMP
email:

The PMI® Consulting Specific Interest Group
is a nonprofit corporation chartered under the Project
Management Institute. The organization is made up of project
management consultant professionals who share the unique
challenges of delivering solutions and providing results in
their consulting work through project management.

Consulting professionals are at the forefront of
implementing new technology, practices, and policies within
their organizations and are agents for organizational
change. Consulting services, a $125 billion global
market, refers to both the practice of helping organizations
to improve performance through analysis of existing business
problems and development of appropriate solutions. The
members provide services from the transfer the transfer of
best practices, analytic techniques, change management and
leadership skills to technology implementations, strategy
development and implementation. Consulting excellence is
achieved through the application of project management
methodologies.

Healthcare
Jim Schneider, PMP
email:

Is a non-profit corporation recently
chartered under the Project Management Institute. The young
organization is made up of healthcare and project management
professionals who share the unique challenges of working in
the dynamic healthcare arena. Not only is it a $2.6 trillion
(and growing) sector in the United States alone, healthcare
is quite personal, it affects each and every one of
us.

They believe that they have a wonderful opportunity to make
a positive impact on healthcare as practitioners from
industry, government, non-profits, educational institutions,
and other public entities. As professionals at the forefront
of implementing new technology, practices, and policies
within their organizations they are the agents for
change.

They bring together their collective knowledge and voices to
provide the opportunity to share success, one project at a
time, and one organization at a time through adoption of
best management practices. Together they can lay a broader
foundation for high performance through better project
management. It is their goal that one day health care will
be one of the best managed markets in the world

PMINJ Local Program and Projects
Ted Williams, PMP
email:

The Program & Project Assessment Group
is a newly formed PMI/NJ Local Interest Group whose vision
is to become a center of excellence (COE) in promoting and
formalizing the use of program and project assessments to
provide timely, proactive performance feedback against
delivery baselines.

The group will focus on:

Increasing awareness of the importance of developing
an appropriate oversight framework

Establishing a repository of effective assessment
processes, tools, and education

Developing a Practice Standard for Program &
Project Assessments. While based on the Project
Management Body of Knowledge® or PMBOK®, the standard
will extend beyond the existing boundaries to include:

a process vs. delivery perspective

benefit management

assessment process flow

assessment rating methodology

The group will leverage:

the collective knowledge and experience of its member
base

the use of Earned Value Management (EVM) to validate
results and expectations

possible opportunities for developing an assessment
credential

potential synergies with the PMI College of
Performance Management and the Troubled Projects SIG

Women in Project Management
Rose Tyler, PMP
email:

The WiPM SIG "came back to life" bigger and
stronger after a period of inactivity. In 2001, the SIG
received a PMI award for regeneration. It now has over 2,000
members worldwide, 15% of whom are non-US located, including
over 500 members with the Project Management Professional
(PMP) credential. Although its name and logo implies "women
only," that's not the case--it has approximately ten men who
are members of the organization. From the male perspective,
WiPM provides a unique opportunity to learn first-hand about
both the similarities and differences in gender as applied
to our field.

While the types of services they provide are standard, they
try to gear them with a female twist. Please browse their
web site to learn more about our News Brief (6 times a
year), special programs such as our eMentoring Program,
Yahoo Community, and the volunteer opportunities.